[OSM-talk] Vegetation page

[Barnett, Phillip]

To be fair, 'village green' has an explicit definition in English law, which is presumably why whoever originally defined it put the word 'English' in. Agreed, that it doesn't have to be in a village, but can be in (or, indeed, outside) any sized population centre.
See http://www.oss.org.uk/village-greens/ where the precise legal definition in England and Wales is given. Basically, any land which has been openly used by local people for recreation for twenty years without objection can be registered as common land in perpetuity, and so protected from development.


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From: talk-bounces at openstreetmap.org [mailto:talk-bounces at openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of Martin Fossdal Guttesen
Sent: 03 December 2009 01:42
To: Steve Bennett
Cc: talk openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Vegetation page

i wrote before
>landuse<wlmailhtml:%7b46D6D967-B718-448E-85BE-E44A8D8A0FF7%7dmid://00001562/!x-usc:http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:landuse>=village_green<wlmailhtml:%7b46D6D967-B718-448E-85BE-E44A8D8A0FF7%7dmid://00001562/!x-usc:http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:landuse%3Dvillage_green>
An open area of grass in the centre of an English village.

 and Peter Kõrner wrote
> An as a foreign national my thoughts were "And I thought OSM was an
> international project..".

what i ment was that there is nothing wrong with the tag, just the descritption of it
the descriptin is extreemly explicit
it says that this tag can only be used in an village and it has to be an egnlish village and it also has to be in the center of the vilage



From: Steve Bennett<mailto:stevagewp at gmail.com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 02, 2009 1:09 AM
To: Open Street Map mailing list<mailto:talk at openstreetmap.org>
Subject: [OSM-talk] Vegetation page

I think I might write up some cross-cutting wiki pages like "vegetation", pointing people in the right directions for the subtle distinctions between natural= and landuse= etc.

Ok, I did it.

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Vegetation

Lots of common bush/tree words link there.

Steve

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